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Impunity for War Crimes Now"
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May 10, 2002
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
We are adding our voice to this call:
[START]
Published on: Thursday, 25 Safar 1423 (9 May 2002)
Prevent another Massacre: End Ariel Sharon's Impunity for War Crimes Now
By Laurie King-Irani
Courtesy : The Electronic Intifada
Dr. Laurie King-Irani is an anthropologist, freelance writer, former editor
of MERIP's Middle East Report, and one of the founders of The Electronic
Intifada. She is currently North American Coordinator for the International
Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila. Laurie and her
Lebanese husband, George, live in Victoria, Canada.
March 12, 2002 -- Imagine that it is September 2010. The site of the World
Trade Center in lower Manhattan is just a garbage dump now. Weather
permitting, teenagers meet to play pick-up games of soccer or baseball in
this space filled with the ashes of thousands. The photos of the innocents
who perished unjustly in the shocking attacks nine years earlier have faded
into oblivion. All of the makeshift altars and memorials to the dead are
long gone, and no one remembers their names. Not a single monument to their
senseless erasure from the world of the living has ever been erected.
Worse still, no one has been punished for these heinous crimes. Not one
person has ever stood trial for the murders of thousands of innocent office
workers and airplane passengers that bright September day nearly a decade
ago. The whole event has, in fact, been pushed off the public stage and
relegated to the private memories of the bereaved. They have gradually come
to realize that their grief must remain unspoken. No one responds when they
raise questions of justice, accountability, or the sacred duty to honor the
dead. People get annoyed whenever they bring up the troubling events of
September 11, 2001, so they have learned, after nine years, to suffer in
silence and pretend that it was no big deal, after all.
Such a scenario is not only impossible to imagine, but offensive as well.
Six months have passed since planes full of terrified civilians plowed into
the twin towers, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania. The US
has launched a "global war on terror" with no end in sight, countless
memorial services have been held, various monuments to the dead are on the
drawing table, and the lives mercilessly and unjustly extinguished last
September are being commemorated in songs by Neil Young, in special
television features, as well as in the pages of the New York Times. No
American would stand for the heartless, unjust, and inhumane scenario
depicted above. Nor should they--or anyone.
That scenario, however absurd and obscene, is not a hypothetical one, but
rather, the daily reality for survivors of one of the most shocking war
crimes committed during the last half of the 20th century: the 1982 Sabra
and Shatila massacres in Beirut. Over 1000 unarmed individuals--women, men,
children, and the aged--were brutally tortured, raped and slaughtered in
September 1982 by Lebanese militiamen allied with and supplied by the
Israeli Defense Forces, which, at the time of the massacre, were in
complete control of Beirut and under the command of Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon. As Israel's top general at the time of the massacres, Sharon had
command responsibility, according to the Geneva Conventions and
international law, for anything that happened in Beirut. Israeli units
controlled access to and from the camps while the massacre unfolded. The
IDF allowed the Lebanese militia to enter the camps and then launched
flares into the night skies to assist the killers in their gruesome tasks.
The burden of the massacres rests ultimately on Sharon's shoulders, and
indeed, a 1983 Israeli commission of inquiry (which was not legally binding
and lacked judicial force) found that Sharon bore "personal responsibility"
for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians.
The survivors of Sabra and Shatila watched in mute horror, powerless to
stop marauding militiamen from exterminating, mutilating, and raping their
children, parents, husbands, wives, and friends. The lucky ones know where
their loved ones' bodies are buried; many more, however, still have no clue
about the final resting place of their dead. And in the hours and days
after the massacres, many Palestinian men and boys were rounded up and
trucked away, never to be seen again, most notably from a sports stadium
near the refugee camps where Israeli military and intelligence officers
were present. A mass grave site at the edge of the refugee camp now does
double duty as a garbage dump and an occasional soccer field. Nearly 20
years after the massacre, not a single permanent memorial has been erected
to commemorate the dead, not a single person--Israeli or Lebanese--has
stood trial for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the
camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982. Such impunity is not only
morally reprehensible and psychologically unbearable, but also politically
dangerous because of the precedent it sets and the hearts and minds it
poisons.
For those who covered the Sabra and Shatila massacre as journalists, no
less than for those who served as medical workers in the camps' hospitals
that scorching September twenty years ago, this week's televised images of
Israeli tanks surrounding refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza and the
photographs of young men lined up, blindfolded and separated from their
families as Israeli soldiers point guns at them, are chillingly familiar.
Those who have witnessed massacres fear another may unfold at any minute.
Those who survived the massacres are incredulous that it might happen
again, but this time with the entire world witnessing the killings on prime
time television. Those who have followed Ariel Sharon's biography
closely--from the cold-blooded attack on the village of Qibya in 1953 that
he orchestrated as leader of the notorious Unit 101, resulting in the
deaths of nearly 70 innocent civilians, to his latest threats to wreak
large scale destruction and collective punishment on Palestinians who have
been trapped in their towns and villages under a long siege--urgently warn
that Sharon must be stopped before mass graves are dug again in other
refugee camps.
The disturbing events of the last week in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
underline the pressing need to dismantle the settlements, end the
occupation, and most importantly, to consolidate the rule of law by
ensuring international oversight of the occupied territories. What the
alarming increase in killings and the disturbing trends in IDF strategy
also indicate is an urgent need to end Ariel Sharon's impunity for war
crimes once and for all. And if the recent legal efforts of 23 survivors of
the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre bear fruit, that may happen sooner than
many imagine.
A judicial forum for raising these issues and attaining justice did not
exist in September 1982. It does now. On May 15, 2002 arguments will
continue before a Belgian court concerning a complaint lodged by massacre
survivors accusing Sharon and other Israelis and Lebanese with war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and other grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
and international law. In the 1990s, Belgium incorporated into its criminal
law system the principle of Universal Jurisdiction for war crimes, which is
embodied in the Geneva Conventions and international customary law. This
has enabled the bereaved sons, daughters, parents, sisters, brothers, and
widows of those killed in September 1982 to seek justice, not revenge; to
aim for closure, not retaliation; and to honor their dead by taking their
case before a court of law and thereby affirming an international order
based on universal principles of justice, not a world blinded by the
ancient and fruitless principle of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth."
Bringing Ariel Sharon and others to trial for the heinous crimes committed
in Sabra and Shatila twenty Septembers ago is just and proper compensation
for the victims, and a long overdue remedy for the survivors. They have
inhabited a limbo of grief, fear, and bitterness for two decades, suffering
not only the horrifying deaths of their loved ones, but the denial of any
psychological, moral, or legal closure. But bringing Sharon to trial is
equally imperative for those now living under the threat of new massacres
in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as the IDF, again under Sharon's
command, displays utter disregard for international law.
The innocents who perished in the camps of Sabra and Shatila in September
1982 are no less human, no less worthy, than the innocents incinerated in
New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania in September 2001. After 20
years of waiting, it is time to lay the dead of Sabra and Shatila to rest,
it is time to honor the murdered by holding the murderers accountable. No
one would expect Americans to forget the dead of 9/11 and "just get over it
and move on," nor should Americans accept that those directly responsible
for the crimes of September 2001 might escape justice before a court of
law. If the universal principles undergirding international law are to have
any meaning and substance for the coming generations, we should not allow
those who committed the crimes of September 1982 to enjoy impunity either.
Please support the global campaign against impunity for war crimes. If you
are in the USA, demand that your congressperson and senators take a stand
on this issue; write letters to the editor and ask why newspapers and the
electronic media in the US have not addressed Ariel Sharon's long history
of war crimes; raise these important issues of justice, morality, and human
rights with your colleagues, friends, and neighbors. Join with all those
throughout the world who are demanding that the trial in Belgium go forward
until justice is done. Ariel Sharon and others must be held accountable for
the grave crimes against humanity committed in Sabra and Shatila in 1982.
=====
Disclaimer:
This article is provided and written by the author mentioned above. Shia
News is not responsible for the contents of this article.
=====
[END]
THE Zündelsite points out - for the record:
Here is the German dimension to these Israeli crimes!
Reread the last three paragraphs and replace the Jewish name of
Sharon with Jewish names like Ehrenburg, Beria, Kaganovich and
Morgenthau - and you have a repeat of what you are seeing today.
The German civilians who died in Allied camps and prisons of
Lamsdorf, Schwäbisch-Hall, Bad Neundorf and in the sieges of Breslau,
Königsberg, Prag, Dresden and Berlin over half a century ago were
less innocent - and are no less worthy of being remembered as
innocent victims of war crimes. It is time to lay to rest the
millions of dead Germans - dead of the Allied campaigns of ethnic
cleansing in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the Sudeten, Silesia and
East Prussia - and stop soiling their memory by outdated,
self-serving, relentlessly vicious post-war propaganda.
Furthermore, it is time to hold the Allied murderers, many of whom
fled to Israel - where they resisted, and still resist, extradition -
accountable, even if only symbolically. Those still alive, many of
whose names and deeds are known, should stand trial for their crimes
in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Germany - POST-WAR CRIMES
COMMITTED LONG AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER!
The world knows the names of these torturers and killers. The world
also knows, and should bring to justice, all those who formulated
rules for the campaigns of ethnic cleansing and the rapes, robberies
and expulsions of 15 million Germans after World War II, millions of
whom died on the road - hundreds of thousands of them murdered.
Today we have the Wolfowitzes, Perles, Huntingtons and all those
odious, scribbling neocons who agitate for war and are busy
formulating the policies which lead to these tragedies. Half a
century ago, it was the haters such as the Lindemanns, the Baruchs,
the Nizers, Brandeises and, above all, the infamous Morgenthaus in
the West, while the East had Kaganovich, Beria, Ehrenburg, the Anna
Pankers and Hilde Benjamins - all of whom were "Schreibtischtäters",
men and women with hate on their brains and murder in their hearts
who ordered the torture and murder of millions with the stroke of
their pens.
No monument has been allowed to be built for the victims of these
sadists in the employ of a sinister if not demonic agenda. If the
Germans, half a century later, raise the issue and demand legal
action against the perpetrators and relief from unremitting public
hate fed by a captive media, they are slapped to the ground by a
complicit and still morally complacent East and West - as if they
were mere pesky insects.
Unavenged guilt cannot be hidden by facile hypocrisy. More
bloodshed, more grief, will be the certain result of such an
injustice that is crying out to be heard.
=====
Thought for the Day:
"For extreme illnesses, extreme treatments are most fitting."
(Hippocrates, 460-400 B. C. )
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">May 10,
2002</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Good Morning from
the Zundelsite:</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">We are adding our
voice to this call:</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">[START]<br>
<br>
Published on: Thursday, 25 Safar 1423 (9 May 2002)<br>
<br>
Prevent another Massacre: End Ariel Sharon's Impunity for War Crimes
Now<br>
<br>
By Laurie King-Irani<br>
<br>
Courtesy : The Electronic Intifada<br>
<br>
Dr. Laurie King-Irani is an anthropologist, freelance writer, former
editor<br>
of MERIP's Middle East Report, and one of the founders of The
Electronic<br>
Intifada. She is currently North American Coordinator for the
International<br>
Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila. Laurie and
her<br>
Lebanese husband, George, live in Victoria, Canada.<br>
<br>
March 12, 2002 -- Imagine that it is September 2010. The site of the
World<br>
Trade Center in lower Manhattan is just a garbage dump now.
Weather<br>
permitting, teenagers meet to play pick-up games of soccer or baseball
in<br>
this space filled with the ashes of thousands. The photos of the
innocents<br>
who perished unjustly in the shocking attacks nine years earlier have
faded<br>
into oblivion. All of the makeshift altars and memorials to the dead
are<br>
long gone, and no one remembers their names. Not a single monument to
their<br>
senseless erasure from the world of the living has ever been
erected.<br>
<br>
Worse still, no one has been punished for these heinous crimes. Not
one<br>
person has ever stood trial for the murders of thousands of innocent
office<br>
workers and airplane passengers that bright September day nearly a
decade<br>
ago. The whole event has, in fact, been pushed off the public stage
and<br>
relegated to the private memories of the bereaved. They have gradually
come<br>
to realize that their grief must remain unspoken. No one responds when
they<br>
raise questions of justice, accountability, or the sacred duty to
honor the<br>
dead. People get annoyed whenever they bring up the troubling events
of<br>
September 11, 2001, so they have learned, after nine years, to suffer
in<br>
silence and pretend that it was no big deal, after all.<br>
<br>
Such a scenario is not only impossible to imagine, but offensive as
well.<br>
Six months have passed since planes full of terrified civilians plowed
into<br>
the twin towers, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania.
The US<br>
has launched a "global war on terror" with no end in sight,
countless<br>
memorial services have been held, various monuments to the dead are on
the<br>
drawing table, and the lives mercilessly and unjustly extinguished
last<br>
September are being commemorated in songs by Neil Young, in
special<br>
television features, as well as in the pages of the New York Times.
No<br>
American would stand for the heartless, unjust, and inhumane
scenario<br>
depicted above. Nor should they--or anyone.<br>
<br>
That scenario, however absurd and obscene, is not a hypothetical one,
but<br>
rather, the daily reality for survivors of one of the most shocking
war<br>
crimes committed during the last half of the 20th century: the 1982
Sabra<br>
and Shatila massacres in Beirut. Over 1000 unarmed individuals--women,
men,<br>
children, and the aged--were brutally tortured, raped and slaughtered
in<br>
September 1982 by Lebanese militiamen allied with and supplied by
the<br>
Israeli Defense Forces, which, at the time of the massacre, were
in<br>
complete control of Beirut and under the command of Defense Minister
Ariel<br>
Sharon. As Israel's top general at the time of the massacres, Sharon
had<br>
command responsibility, according to the Geneva Conventions and<br>
international law, for anything that happened in Beirut. Israeli
units<br>
controlled access to and from the camps while the massacre unfolded.
The<br>
IDF allowed the Lebanese militia to enter the camps and then
launched<br>
flares into the night skies to assist the killers in their gruesome
tasks.<br>
The burden of the massacres rests ultimately on Sharon's shoulders,
and<br>
indeed, a 1983 Israeli commission of inquiry (which was not legally
binding<br>
and lacked judicial force) found that Sharon bore "personal
responsibility"</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">for the deaths of
hundreds of innocent civilians.<br>
<br>
The survivors of Sabra and Shatila watched in mute horror, powerless
to<br>
stop marauding militiamen from exterminating, mutilating, and raping
their<br>
children, parents, husbands, wives, and friends. The lucky ones know
where<br>
their loved ones' bodies are buried; many more, however, still have no
clue<br>
about the final resting place of their dead. And in the hours and
days<br>
after the massacres, many Palestinian men and boys were rounded up
and<br>
trucked away, never to be seen again, most notably from a sports
stadium<br>
near the refugee camps where Israeli military and intelligence
officers<br>
were present. A mass grave site at the edge of the refugee camp now
does<br>
double duty as a garbage dump and an occasional soccer field. Nearly
20<br>
years after the massacre, not a single permanent memorial has been
erected<br>
to commemorate the dead, not a single person--Israeli or
Lebanese--has<br>
stood trial for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed
in the<br>
camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982. Such impunity is not
only<br>
morally reprehensible and psychologically unbearable, but also
politically<br>
dangerous because of the precedent it sets and the hearts and minds
it<br>
poisons.<br>
<br>
For those who covered the Sabra and Shatila massacre as journalists,
no<br>
less than for those who served as medical workers in the camps'
hospitals<br>
that scorching September twenty years ago, this week's televised
images of<br>
Israeli tanks surrounding refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza and
the<br>
photographs of young men lined up, blindfolded and separated from
their<br>
families as Israeli soldiers point guns at them, are chillingly
familiar.<br>
Those who have witnessed massacres fear another may unfold at any
minute.<br>
Those who survived the massacres are incredulous that it might
happen<br>
again, but this time with the entire world witnessing the killings on
prime<br>
time television. Those who have followed Ariel Sharon's biography<br>
closely--from the cold-blooded attack on the village of Qibya in 1953
that<br>
he orchestrated as leader of the notorious Unit 101, resulting in
the<br>
deaths of nearly 70 innocent civilians, to his latest threats to
wreak<br>
large scale destruction and collective punishment on Palestinians who
have<br>
been trapped in their towns and villages under a long siege--urgently
warn<br>
that Sharon must be stopped before mass graves are dug again in
other<br>
refugee camps.<br>
<br>
The disturbing events of the last week in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip<br>
underline the pressing need to dismantle the settlements, end the<br>
occupation, and most importantly, to consolidate the rule of law
by<br>
ensuring international oversight of the occupied territories. What
the<br>
alarming increase in killings and the disturbing trends in IDF
strategy<br>
also indicate is an urgent need to end Ariel Sharon's impunity for
war<br>
crimes once and for all. And if the recent legal efforts of 23
survivors of<br>
the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre bear fruit, that may happen sooner
than<br>
many imagine.<br>
<br>
A judicial forum for raising these issues and attaining justice did
not<br>
exist in September 1982. It does now. On May 15, 2002 arguments
will<br>
continue before a Belgian court concerning a complaint lodged by
massacre<br>
survivors accusing Sharon and other Israelis and Lebanese with war
crimes,<br>
crimes against humanity, and other grave breaches of the Geneva
Conventions<br>
and international law. In the 1990s, Belgium incorporated into its
criminal<br>
law system the principle of Universal Jurisdiction for war crimes,
which is<br>
embodied in the Geneva Conventions and international customary law.
This<br>
has enabled the bereaved sons, daughters, parents, sisters, brothers,
and<br>
widows of those killed in September 1982 to seek justice, not revenge;
to<br>
aim for closure, not retaliation; and to honor their dead by taking
their<br>
case before a court of law and thereby affirming an international
order<br>
based on universal principles of justice, not a world blinded by
the<br>
ancient and fruitless principle of "an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a<br>
tooth."<br>
<br>
Bringing Ariel Sharon and others to trial for the heinous crimes
committed</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">in Sabra and
Shatila twenty Septembers ago is just and proper compensation<br>
for the victims, and a long overdue remedy for the survivors. They
have<br>
inhabited a limbo of grief, fear, and bitterness for two decades,
suffering<br>
not only the horrifying deaths of their loved ones, but the denial of
any<br>
psychological, moral, or legal closure. But bringing Sharon to trial
is<br>
equally imperative for those now living under the threat of new
massacres<br>
in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as the IDF, again under
Sharon's<br>
command, displays utter disregard for international law.<br>
<br>
The innocents who perished in the camps of Sabra and Shatila in
September<br>
1982 are no less human, no less worthy, than the innocents incinerated
in<br>
New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania in September 2001.
After 20<br>
years of waiting, it is time to lay the dead of Sabra and Shatila to
rest,<br>
it is time to honor the murdered by holding the murderers accountable.
No<br>
one would expect Americans to forget the dead of 9/11 and "just
get over it<br>
and move on," nor should Americans accept that those directly
responsible<br>
for the crimes of September 2001 might escape justice before a court
of<br>
law. If the universal principles undergirding international law are to
have<br>
any meaning and substance for the coming generations, we should not
allow<br>
those who committed the crimes of September 1982 to enjoy impunity
either.<br>
<br>
Please support the global campaign against impunity for war crimes. If
you<br>
are in the USA, demand that your congressperson and senators take a
stand<br>
on this issue; write letters to the editor and ask why newspapers and
the<br>
electronic media in the US have not addressed Ariel Sharon's long
history<br>
of war crimes; raise these important issues of justice, morality, and
human<br>
rights with your colleagues, friends, and neighbors. Join with all
those<br>
throughout the world who are demanding that the trial in Belgium go
forward<br>
until justice is done. Ariel Sharon and others must be held
accountable for<br>
the grave crimes against humanity committed in Sabra and Shatila in
1982.<br>
<br>
=====<br>
<br>
Disclaimer:<br>
This article is provided and written by the author mentioned above.
Shia<br>
News is not responsible for the contents of this article. <br>
<br>
=====<br>
<br>
[END]<br>
<br>
THE Zündelsite points out - for the record:<br>
<br>
Here is the German dimension to these Israeli crimes! <br>
<br>
Reread the last three paragraphs and replace the Jewish name of Sharon
with Jewish names like Ehrenburg, Beria, Kaganovich and Morgenthau -
and you have a repeat of what you are seeing today. <br>
<br>
The German civilians who died in Allied camps and prisons of Lamsdorf,
Schwäbisch-Hall, Bad Neundorf and in the sieges of Breslau,
Königsberg, Prag, Dresden and Berlin over half a century ago were less
innocent - and are no less worthy of being remembered as innocent
victims of war crimes. It is time to lay to rest the millions of
dead Germans - dead of the Allied campaigns of ethnic cleansing in
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the Sudeten, Silesia and East Prussia -
and stop soiling their memory by outdated, self-serving, relentlessly
vicious post-war propaganda. <br>
<br>
Furthermore, it is time to hold the Allied murderers, many of whom
fled to Israel - where they resisted, and still resist, extradition -
accountable, even if only symbolically. Those still alive, many
of whose names and deeds are known, should stand trial for their
crimes in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Germany - POST-WAR
CRIMES COMMITTED LONG AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER!<br>
<br>
The world knows the names of these torturers and killers. The
world also knows, and should bring to justice, all those who
formulated rules for the campaigns of ethnic cleansing and the rapes,
robberies and expulsions of 15 million Germans after World War II,
millions of whom died on the road - hundreds of thousands of them
murdered. <br>
<br>
Today we have the Wolfowitzes, Perles, Huntingtons and all those
odious, scribbling neocons who agitate for war and are busy
formulating the policies which lead to these tragedies. Half a
century ago, it was the haters such as the Lindemanns, the Baruchs,
the Nizers, Brandeises and, above all, the infamous Morgenthaus in the
West, while the East had Kaganovich, Beria, Ehrenburg, the Anna
Pankers and Hilde Benjamins - all of whom were
"Schreibtischtäters", men and women with hate on their
brains and murder in their hearts who ordered the torture and murder
of millions with the stroke of their pens. </font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
No monument has been allowed to be built for the victims of these
sadists in the employ of a sinister if not demonic agenda. If
the Germans, half a century later, raise the issue and demand legal
action against the perpetrators and relief from unremitting public
hate fed by a captive media, they are slapped to the ground by a
complicit and still morally complacent East and West - as if they were
mere pesky insects. <br>
<br>
Unavenged guilt cannot be hidden by facile hypocrisy. More
bloodshed, more grief, will be the certain result of such an injustice
that is crying out to be heard. <br>
<br>
=====<br>
<br>
Thought for the Day:<br>
<br>
"For extreme illnesses, extreme treatments are most
fitting."<br>
<br>
(Hippocrates, 460-400 B. C. )<br>
<br>
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